A highlight of our month-long exhibit at the University of San Francisco was our closing event on April 26, where Craig McNamara launched his new memoir, Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, From Vietnam to Today (Little Brown).
Craig is the son of Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson who was known as the architect of the War in Vietnam. The USF book launch was the first stop on Craig's nationwide tour. In the video below, you can see the recording of Craig at our USF event introduced by Professor Jonathan Greenberg and interviewed by former NY Times editor Philip Taubman.
Soon after the event in San Francisco, we were on hand to listen to Craig discuss his book with Jane Mayer, a staff writer for the New Yorker and acclaimed nonfiction author, at Politics and Prose, a bookstore in Washington, DC. See the coverage from this appearance below:
Also of interest, Joe Klein in the Washington Post offered a great review of the book in which he writes that Craig’s telling of his relationship with his father has “credibility and power.”